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Waiting for Social Commerce
Since the founding of Facebook and Twitter; pundits, VC’s and entrepreneurs have been predicting the second tidal wave innovation to transform the e-commerce business as we had known it. “Social...

Does Groupon Have a Future Beyond Daily Deals?
Below is an editorial I wrote for MediaPost a few weeks back. It was published today. It may be premature to talk about the “second act” of a company that...

Dispelling FUD in Mobile Payments
Mobile Payment is quickly becoming as useless of a term as Cloud Computing. Companies across a wide spectrum of use cases and industries are quickly re-positioning themselves as a player...

The LOCAL Innovator’s Solution
I did a lot of complaining last week on the hurdles of selling products and services to SMB’s. Typically, I hate people who spent most of their days trying to...

Dreamhost + MuckerLab
We are proud to announce our partnership with the team at Dreamhost. Together, we strive make it easier, faster; and dare we say it, cheaper to turn your ideas into...

The LOCAL Innovator’s Dilemma
By my count, around 100 startups focused on local were launched between Q2 and Q3 of 2011. there are mobile apps, deals/offers companies, social relationship management dashboards, ad networks, merchant...

Back In The Day
It was 1999, I was 23. If someone asked, I usually lied and claimed to be 25. 25 seemed so much wiser and smarter not only because it seemed like...

Why Now? Why Us? Why MuckerLab?
If you are reading this, it probably means you care about the startup community here in LA. And if you care, we have no doubt that you believe, like we...

Desperately Seeking Business Models
One of the most common questions I get from entrepreneurs is “how baked does my business model or monetization strategy have to be to 1. get into an incubator 2....